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Eelco Dolstra 04170d06bf nix-copy-closure: Fix race condition
There is a long-standing race condition when copying a closure to a
remote machine, particularly affecting build-remote.pl: the client
first asks the remote machine which paths it already has, then copies
over the missing paths. If the garbage collector kicks in on the
remote machine between the first and second step, the already-present
paths may be deleted. The missing paths may then refer to deleted
paths, causing nix-copy-closure to fail. The client now performs both
steps using a single remote Nix call (using ‘nix-store --serve’),
locking all paths in the closure while querying.

I changed the --serve protocol a bit (getting rid of QueryCommand), so
this breaks the SSH substituter from older versions. But it was marked
experimental anyway.

Fixes #141.
2014-07-10 11:58:59 +02:00
config Add config.guess, config.sub and install-sh 2013-11-25 11:26:02 +00:00
corepkgs derivation: Don't require certain function arguments 2014-04-04 21:53:47 +02:00
doc Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’ 2014-07-04 13:34:15 +02:00
misc Add autoloads, make code more concise & idiomatic 2014-06-12 12:34:58 +02:00
mk Sync with make-rules repo 2014-04-03 17:37:14 +02:00
perl nix-copy-closure: Fix race condition 2014-07-10 11:58:59 +02:00
scripts nix-build: --add-root also takes 1 parameter 2014-05-26 17:24:43 +02:00
src nix-copy-closure: Fix race condition 2014-07-10 11:58:59 +02:00
tests Add a test for the SSH substituter 2014-07-10 01:53:56 +02:00
.gitignore Install an Upstart service 2014-05-02 13:14:10 +02:00
AUTHORS * Put something in here. 2004-11-07 20:30:02 +00:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
INSTALL * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
Makefile Install an Upstart service 2014-05-02 13:14:10 +02:00
Makefile.config.in nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet 2014-05-21 17:19:36 +02:00
README * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix). 2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
build.nix Add an experimental nix-make file 2012-05-21 09:43:01 -04:00
configure.ac Use std::unordered_set 2014-05-26 17:53:17 +02:00
dev-shell dev-shell is a bash script, not sh 2014-05-26 17:21:20 +02:00
local.mk Remove redundant code 2014-05-14 22:25:25 +02:00
nix.spec.in Really fix the RPM builds 2014-05-06 10:51:16 +02:00
release.nix Don't build on Ubuntu 10.10 2014-07-08 20:41:25 +02:00
version Bump version to 1.8 2014-04-11 11:15:24 +02:00

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